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Title:  A compleat treatise of urines, shewing the right method of urinal prognostication, far different from the common practice of quacks and mountebanks. By T.H. Pharmacop. Rustican:
Author: Hicks, T.
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into the least atomes, and disperst throughout the whole body of the Urine. If the Consistence be thinner, than it ought to be, as 'tis seen in clear and waterish. Urine, 'tis a Sign of Indigestion and Crudity, that the aliment is not fully con∣cocted: but if the Urine be more crass and thick than it ought to be, 'tis a Sign the body of the Liquor is clogg'd with Preternatural Contents; but of these elsewhere, when we treat of the Urines of sick Persons. Hitherto have we spok∣en of Urine in a sound Body, both as the Excre∣ment and Sign of Concoction rightly perform'd in the Bowells and other Vessels.We must take the measures of its Quantity from what we drink; its Citron-colour, from Salt and Sulphur dissolv'd and incocted in the Serum. The Hypostasis or Contents depend upon the fi∣laments elaborated in the mass of Blood, for the nourishment of the solid parts. Its Consi∣stance is from Salt and Sulphur, together with some particles of Earth, filling up the pores and spaces of the serous Part. It remains next, that we treat of the Urines of sick Persons, in which likewise the Quantity, Colour, Contents and Con∣sistence, as also some other accidents, offer them∣selves to our consideration.CHAP. IIII. Of the Quantity and Colour of the Urines of Sick Persons.IN a desease or sickly State of Body, the Quan¦tity of Urine frequently answers not the ne∣cessary 0